The Sage Sayers
A weekly podcast on ways to stay calm and compel others as you communicate. Along with executive communications tips and strategies, we interview intriguing individuals who've found the "Sage approach" by finding gifts, opportunities, and knowledge within trying situations. New Zealander show host, Debbi Gardiner McCullough, has written on social and business trends and struggles for the Economist, the Guardian, and Financial Times of London. She's a self-retired college professor of writing, an executive communications and narrative coach. Visit her at: www.hangingrockcoaching.com
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 140
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
The Sage Sayers: How Do We Negotiate For What We Want? Mark Herschberg Has Some Clues.
My guest this week is Mark Herschberg, an author, public speaker, and an MIT instructor based in New York. Along with teaching at MIT's career success accelerator and serving as a startup CTO, Mark's…
The Sage Sayers: What's the Communications Gift from the Mass Resignation?
The mass resignation--millions of workers leaving their jobs in hopes of a better life and purpose--offers us gifts and opportunities as communicators. We can learn something from this global phenome…
The Sage Sayers: How Do We Tell Stories Which Honor Us, Help Others, and Uplift?
Many communicators want to uplift and humanize topics through storytelling; but how to do it succinctly and well? This week's podcast shares a tried and tested framework, offers some small best pract…
The Sage Sayers: How Might Coaching Help Us Find the Clarity, Perspective, and Calm We Seek? Ask Maura Dolan.
My guest this week is Dublin, Ireland-based Maura Dolan who has spent the large part of her life and career coaching executives to find the calm, clarity, and perspective to lead from an authentic an…
The Sage Sayers: How Do We Create Vital Space For True, Long-Term Growth? Ask Dorie Clark.
My guest this week is Dorie Clark, an American author and executive education professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Along with working as a globally recognized communications coach…
The Sage Sayers: Replacing Fear of Personal Rejection with Love For Learning. Five Questions with Bill Carmody
My guest this week is Bill Carmody, Head of Coaching for Positive Intelligence, who oversees the application of mental fitness for thousands of coaches worldwide. He also creates and rolls out the bu…
The Sage Sayers: How Do We Circumnavigate Burnout? Ask Marie-Louise Pereira.
My guest this week is Parisian and Armenian Coach Marie-Louise Pereira who helps the many coachees she serves all over the globe better understand our values, our purpose and with a vital end goal: …
The Sage Sayers: How Do I Make My Enormous Ideas Tangible? Sharing Big, Half-Hatched Ideas With Audiences
If you're like me, you're often sharing your ideas in a free-flow way wanting to make sense of things as you go. While external processing's lovely for big-idea people, from the field I hear a real …
The Sage Sayers: Finding Calm, Courage and Bliss Through Art. An Interview with Jayne Willoughby
My guest today is Jayne Willoughby, a professional coach and artist based in rural Alberta, Canada. Jayne's a true Sage Sayer who's found the gifts and opportunities through life's inevitable setback…
The Sage Sayers: Writing Of Your Successes With Courage Vs. Fear. Applying Love to Your Performance Review.
Performance reviews can trigger angst in all of us — and not surprising really because so much feels at stake. And yet, applying a blend of mental fitness, communications coaching, and journalistic s…
The Sage Sayers: How Do I Stay Audience Centered, Clear, (and Compelling) When Writing To My Audiences?
There's real folly right now in not writing in clear, accessible, and audience-centered ways. Here in the U.S., the home for The Sage Sayers, 30% of workers plan to resign from their jobs and Gallup …
The Sage Sayers: Why Does Strategy Matter for Storytelling? Ask Pam Knox.
If you're like me, you want to share your story willy-nilly without much thought for strategy. But Coach Pam Knox, my guest this week, advises nothing beyond purposeful, strategic storytelling. Unles…
The Sage Sayers: How Do We Find Our Inherent Gifts? The Perfect Novel of My Life. Chapter One.
In this week's episode of the Sage Sayers, I’m narrating Chapter One of the Perfect Novel of My Life. This narrative coaching and mental fitness exercise builds discovery of our inherent gifts to th…
The Sage Sayers: How Does the Language of Data Transcend all Challenges (and Boundaries)?
My guest this week is Colby McCullough, a supply chain expert with a combined 24 years of experience in the aerospace and consumer goods industries. He grew up in New Orleans and holds a BS in Struc…
The Sage Sayers: Why Ought We Retool, Reinvent, and Grow? Career Coach Charles Jett Knows.
My guest this week is Charles Cranston Jett, a certified coach specializing in career management, critical skill development, and career crises. Charles got here through years of management consultin…
The Sage Sayers: How Do We Sound (and Feel) Brave When Asking For More?
In this week's podcast, we offer tips and strategies on asking for a raise, promotion, or improved rates and terms with a contract. This podcast provides a revised audio version to Coach Debbi's arti…
The Sage Sayers: How does community bring us calm and strength? Pastor Thomas DeLoach knows.
My guest this week is Pastor and Dr. Thomas A DeLoach who captures the hearts of North Carolina's youth through preaching, coaching, and his provocative messages on God and community.
With Father's D…
The Sage Sayers: Celebrate the Way and the Pay. Finding Gratitude and Happiness in Sales.
Gunter Schaber wants to transform how salespeople (and entrepreneurs) view their prize. He means: Rather than focus exclusively on the big payout at the end, enjoy the journey along the way. Doing so…
The Sage Sayers: Using Practice, Courage, and Creativity to Combat Speaking With Fear. An Interview With Peter Khoury.
My guest this week is Peter Khoury, a professional speaker and public speaking coach from the West Bank based in San Francisco. Peter's a great story to tell of a life full of art, priests, and wond…
The Sage Sayers: How Do We Dismiss Our Inner Judge's Lie(s) When We Present to Spooky Audiences?
In this week's podcast, we explore how mental fitness through Positive Intelligence (the science and practice of mastering your mind so you can reach your full potential) serves us with high-stakes p…